From Omowale Pan-African Library, posted by Dwayne Wong (Omowale)
Alexandra Ducksworth on African history, June 2018
Dwayne posted this Steel Pan Vibes segment to his channel. He is its guest interviewer. Watch it on his channel, where the comments are.
A segment of the Steel Pan Vibes radio show from June 2018. The host and Dwayne, the guest interviewer, open by discussing children’s emotional stress and Dwayne’s Facebook page, Restoring the African Mind. After a sponsor break, Dwayne interviews Alexandra Ducksworth, a music student.
Ducksworth says her parents gave her a grounding in African history that schools leave vague, and she grew interested in ancient Egyptology and archaeology. She quotes Marcus Garvey’s line that a people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots, and says television covers the Old West, Vikings and slavery but nothing from before slavery. On mental health, she says Black women are expected to put everyone else first, and elders should give young people time and an outlet rather than sweep problems under the rug.
Her closing fact: a musician from Trinidad and Tobago, finding that recordings never caught the acoustics of the pan, invented and patented an electronic steel pan with built-in speakers.
